"Sie empfinden sich als bedeutungslos" - MZES-Direktor Marc Helbling im @zeit.de -Interview zu den Gemeinsamkeiten von Linksradikalen, Rechtsradikalen und Fundamentalisten. 👉 www.zeit.de/2026/27/extr... (Bezahlschranke) 1/3

Extremismus: »Sie empfinden sich als bedeutungslos«

Was verbindet Linksradikale, Rechtsradikale und Fundamentalisten? Der Soziologe Marc Helbling sagt: Es sind ihre Gefühle.

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New paper in Political Psychology: The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men This study examines moral grandstanding (i.e., using moral discourse to enhance status) across 4 European countries (N=8,420). 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/pops...

The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men

Moral grandstanding—the use of moral discourse to enhance one's status—has become a central feature of contemporary political expression. Drawing on representative survey data from Germany, France, G...

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A week ago, we - the PerFair project - celebrated the successful data collection among 7th graders in Germany 🎉funded by @excinequality.bsky.social! 🙏 to a bunch of great colleagues from political science and sociology for coming all the way to Konstanz, inspiring comments and impressive talks! 🙏🤓👍

New paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social‬: Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement

Understanding inequality in political involvement is a core goal of political science. Previous research has examined specific life-course influences, but there is limited knowledge about the diver...

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IN NEW ISSUE: The US 2020 Elections - @sjungkunz.bsky.social, @robfahey.net & A Hino investigate the dynamics of political violence justification & its connection with populist attitudes & conspiracy beliefs: buff.ly/6JplH9f @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com

We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects

The relationship between economic hardship and political violence is the focus on this note by @sjungkunz.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Paper out in Politics and the Life Sciences (@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social): “Parental income moderates the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest in adolescents” (doi.org/10.1017/pls....).

I've been interviewing researchers from various departments at Waseda for our university podcast series, and my first episode, with Prof. Marisa Kellam, was published last week. Hopefully my dulcet tones are more soothing than the grim topic of democratic backsliding. www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/...

【Waseda University Podcasts: Rigorous Research, Real Impact】Democratic Backsliding and the Role of Populism

Waseda University released the third episode, “Democratic Backsliding and the Role of Populism”, of its English language podcast series “Rig...

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The US 2020 Elections - @sjungkunz.bsky.social, Robert A Fahey & Airo Hino investigate the dynamics of political violence justification & its connection with populist attitudes & conspiracy beliefs: https://buff.ly/3ZidmeI @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs

Inspired by @dtoshkov.bsky.social and the upcoming conference abstract season, types of EPSA papers

Dimiter Toshkov@dtoshkov.bsky.social · 2y ago

The 12 types of Political Science paper. What's missing #polsci?